'Lo People!

Hey! Yeah, April, this blog has been kinda slow lately! Anyhow, I agree...take yer money & run! I'd say that's a pretty good settlement...that's actually more than I'd have expected you guys to get.

Not really much to share with me...just workin' as usual. I leave next Sun. finally for my training in New York! (hopefully nobody has a dumb excuse this time...like it's too close to Valentine's...LOL).

School...I'm still trying to decide if Pharm.D. school is the right thing for me...so since I don't know...I'm going to do nothing about it. My acceptance to pre-pharm at UT is good for a year...so, if I decide to do that, I won't have to re-apply. I'm just not sure I'd be happy doing that; plus it's kinda of a lot of school. If I'm going to spend that much time on it, I should probably just do med school.

So...my car's transmission is acting up...blah! I had it serviced around November because it was kinda jumping a bit on first to second. They couldn't find anything, changed the transmission fluid, & it was fine then. So, now it started doing it again last week. I thought about trading it in for a brand new Honda, but I like my car & I really would like to keep it for a while (& finish paying it off). So, I might need to get a new transmission they said...which fortunately I have an extended powertrain warranty to 100,000 (mine's at 80,000)...but it still sucks! A honda transmission shouldn't go out at 80,000...

Well, guess I'll go pretend like I'm working :)
Liz

update for april

well the blog has been kinda slow lately. So an update from me.......

job-hate it LOL.....

applying to school-my file is finally complete after waiting on slow ass professors to send in their reference forms of which they have had since OCTOBER. grrrrrrrr. anyway I hope to get an interview for that.....the email from BG said they will let people know about interviews late January. So keep your fingers crossed.

Jenna's xmas present-working on picking those up....I emailed your dad and he hasnt emailed me back.

last week- last tuesday at 3am...my mom woke me up and said she thought something was wrong with my grandma. So I got up and well she was having a sugar attack. Her sugar had bottomed out to 40 and she was delirious. She didnt even know where she was, so I called 911 and the EMT's got here and they hooked her up to an IV with sugar water in it and took her to the ER. At the ER they gave her some food and got her sugar up to 14oish. While the nurse was trying to take out the IV....my grandma got this weird look on her face and started to mess with the hand the IV was in...the nurse told her to put her hand down and she didnt listen...the nurse asked is she always like this....I said NO she is with it....and then my grandma went into a seizure.....that was pretty scary to see...so they had to keep her and they transported her up to St. V's in Toledo to a Neurologist.....she was there until Saturday....the doctor said that sometimes in older people seizures just spurt up and he put her on a pill to prevent them. She is home and is still pretty weak but she is doing better.

Lawsuit-got the allocation letter in the mail after Christmas saying that I will be getting $6,926. So this week they email us saying they want to resubmit our claims to try for more money but not without risk that they might decide to lower our allocations and no gaurantee that there would be more money. We had the choice to resubmit or not to...so with the advice of my friend Janna I am taking my money and running. I decided not to resubmit because I dont want to take the risk of the dollar amount lowering and even if we got more money the lawyers would prolly end up just taking more of it for fees. So now Im waiting to hear when we will get the checks.

well that is all Ive been up to so how about everyone else.

Have a great day!
April

New info....

Ok, so my package came BACK to me today. The mailing label must have come off, and the return address stayed on! I will just resend it in the mail ASAP. Oh well...better to know that's what happened than to be lost in the mail!

Santa is very late this year!

Yeah so I called my Dad to ask him what was up with the present situation, and he said he never got the package! Those postal workers lied to me!!!!!! I paid extra to have it delivered by Thursday, and it didnt get there on time! Hopefully it will show up soon. I talked to April the other day about it, and I don't know how everyone will get their presents for sure, I told my Dad about it though. I had them all sent to one place, because I thought they would be there on time. Oh well, as long as they get there! Anyway, my dad's email address is noquiexis@friendlynet.com. I gave April all of the phone #s to get ahold of him. I will let you all know when he gets the package!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
P.S. I will post Christmas video soon!....

Happy New Year!

Happy new year everybody! Hope everybody's partying while I'm at work!

Liz

gonna party like its 1999 errr 2006 LOL

Hey! I definitely had a nice Christmas! I got pretty much everything I wanted....dvds, cds, books, remote car starter that Im gonna try to get installed tomorrow, leather coat, COACH pursie :), Haaaarvard shirt, etc......needless to say Christmas was very good to me.

Thanks everyone for their wonderful gifts....I love them all and will enjoy using them. Jenna what is your Dad's email? Do you know if he has the stuff yet?

Thanks Liz.....Katie revamped my resume for me so I should be all set....I sent it in today so hopefully I will hear back soon if I am invited to interview :) The "deadline" is Jan. 2....they say they suggest that you have everything in by then but you can still apply after. Katie says Marshall is really good she went with her mom and brother.....we should go see it soon.

My schedule is.......
30th-off
31st-off
1st-off
2nd-work
3rd-work
4th-work and have conference call for sorority
5th-off
6th-work
7th-work
8th-work
9th-subbing at high school
10th-work
11th-work
12th-work
13th-off
14th-off
thats all I have for now. Let me know what works for you.

Happy New Year,
April

Happy New Year (almost)!

Hey! Hope everybody had a nice Christmas! I did...I got some new kitchen-ware, including a professional belgian waffle maker & some new skillets, a bunch of books (of course!), some dvds/cds, etc. Anyhow, thanks everbody for the gifts!

Hope your flight back was/is okay, KT (I think you're flying back today...).

April, your personal statement was pretty darn good :) I just mailed you a couple changes...basically grammatical/single word things. Hope you hear from them soon! (when is the deadline?) Let me know your schedule so we can go see Marshall. Sorry I didn't get a chance to go with you guys, although you didn't go anyhow!

Hope everybody's doing something fun New Year's Eve....I'm working & then I'm off New Year's Day. Although, I don't really care...I never do anything anyhow.

Bye!
Liz

Almost here!

Christmas is almost here ya'll! I have to say I am kind of excited this year, with havin' the kids and all......
I wanted to let you know that I received the packages and gifts from all of you. That was really sweet, and you guys didn't need to do that! I know Emma will really enjoy it too. Everything arrived safe and sound....
....OOh yeah...April, I played the moose for Emma...she smiled and then pressed the record button, so it wiped out the message when she grabbed it from me. Oh well, she got to hear it anyway! I thought that was so cute!

I will set the camcorder up when we do the Christmas thing at our house and make cd's of Emma's 1st Christmas....

Speaking of gifts....I ordered everyone's gift (they're custom made, ya know:) and they showed up much later than expected. I needed to inspect them before they came to you all. I will send them out ASAP. I wasn't sure when the party was, but I might just send them all to one place and let ya'll figure it out. Anyway, that's the updates here for now...

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas! much love!

More Friday (can't wait!)

Hey...I'm so psyched for this weekend...I can't wait to party...LOL! Anyhow, Friday...I'll see you around 9ish April (I love that sleeping in thing, too :) ). McD's is fine for me...how about a sausage/egg/cheese mcgriddle.

Oh, Jenna...I forgot...I mailed gifts for you guys last Friday. Sorry we'll be missing you at our party this year... :( Have fun anyhow with Emma's 1st christmas!

We can talk about it Fri., but kinda be thinking about what time for Sat. evening. Biaggi's is always really busy, especially on Fri/Sat & of course it's near the holiday. So, I'd kinda like to make reservations since they take them.

Happy Holidays!
Liz

Friday!

Hey girlies!

Jenna sent out your package today.....should be there before Christmas :)

Liz 9:15 sounds great for Friday.....love sleeping in a bit when I get the chance. Where do you want me to pick up breakfast? I was thinking Mcdonalds......let me know where and what you want then I will be out to your house around 9ish.

Katie can't wait to see ya on Friday.

I'm excited about the party on Saturday.....got all my shopping done and I'm ready to party it up LOL!

Aaron are you coming home for Christmas???? Remember you said you would burn the Sex in the City DVD set for me :) I would really like it...just a hint LOL

Have a great day everyone or night everyone!

April :P

'Lo

Hey...shopping is cool with me on Friday...April & I talked about Polaris?? Not sure if you had any idea of where you wanted to go. I'm free during the day...going to a movie with my mom, but not until evening. So, April...what do you think about leaving at about 9:15? We had mentioned 8:45, but I think that's a little early. Let me know :)

Liz

Happy Hanukkah!

Hey there,

How's it going? Scott and I are having a lazy day in Framingham today. We went to a deli/diner place for breakfast this morning, it was very good. We watched 'Accepted' last night, it's funny :) Better than I had expected. Tonight, we have 'The Devil wears Prada' & 'You me & Dupree', it's a movie renting weekend.

Gotta get out and fight the crowds tomorrow so Scott and Christmas shop for the family. Framinghas is the shopping mecca of the area, so I'm sure it will be crazy. Let's see, what else is going on... my dad & grandpa have some nasty 'stomach bug', hope none of you get that! (ick)

Work has been super busy lately, with being gone on vacation and then the meetings in Baltimore last wk, it's been hard to catch up. I'll be glad to sneak away again, hopefully not as much work will pile up this time while I'm gone.

My flight comes in Friday at 11:05 AM, so if you guys want to pick me up without parking, just do the circle around the airport thing. I would say shoot to get there at like 11:20 or so. It's supposed to depart at 8:50 AM, so if you want I'll call when I'm on the plane and let you know that it's taking off on time. April and I talked about maybe going shopping for a bit in Columbus on Friday. What do you think Liz? I need to do some last minute stuff for my dad, which will be hard to do in town with no car. So we're plannin to go to Biaggi's on Saturday night with the party? I'm up for that :)

See you soon!

Can't wait 'til Christmas!

Hey...cute pics everybody :) Anyhow, can't wait until Christmas is here...I'm so glad you're coming home, KT! Ditto on missing JCo (I like that, April!). I am completely done shopping (other than waiting for stuff I ordered on the internet) & I'm very psyched. My mom & I were in Findlay on Saturday...very annoying...and we still have a couple weeks until Christmas.

So...Katie...you gotta email us the details for picking you up at the airport when you get a chance. Are we set for going to Biaggi's for our 'party'?

Hope Emma is feeling better, Jenna!

Liz

Cute Pics!

The pics are very cute except the one of us at the bar I look like Im stoned/drunk one of the two. I hate myself in pictures. The puppy is very cute :) Emma is getting so big and so is Albany. Anyway Christmas is getting closer and I'm almost done shopping I only have a few things left to buy. Also waiting on a couple of things to come in the mail that I ordered. I pretty much shopped all weekend and my grandma used a motorized wheelchair at Walmart for the first time.....you should have been there it was funny....she didnt knock anything over so that was good. But she was afraid to go full speed but when she would turn the corner she would push the lever and go faster around the corner LOL! Keep in mind she never drove a car in her life either. LOL! But we still got some good shopping accomplished.

I cant wait to have are xmas party!!! Its going to be fun but Im gonna miss Jenna and Company....JCo. LOL

I sent my application in to BG. I only have a couple of things left to get sent in to them and I will be all applied. woo hoo

TTYL
April

Ditto on the pics!

Here are some pictures of us too....here is the new addition.....her name is Chloe...she is a Cocker Spaniel :-) Had ya wonderin' for a bit, didn't I......?

P.S. Don't mind the red eye!

Picture time :)

Hey ladies,

I've been neither here nor there lately! For some reason, I don't have much to say, but I do have some pictures. So here's to the 1000 words thing...

At the bar in Findlay:



Mini-Malcolm :) (Albany at Thanksgiving)
She has such a big smile!



So I just noticed, my brother's hands are huge!



The view from my hotel room in Baltimore (21st floor, but of course there's no 13th)



Last night Scott and I went to a party thrown by one of my co-workers. It was a good time :) The band was good, and there was lots of dancing.



Less than two weeks 'til I'm back in OH-IO. See you soon! Oh, and I'm so proud of Troy :) Go Bucks!

TTFN

Getting closer!

Christmas is right around the corner folks! I have about 9 school days left!!!!!! WOOHOOO! Then I'm off for like a week and a half! That will be wonderful!

Sorry to hear about the trip being off Liz...NY would be totally awesome to see at Christmas time! But, getting a trip at all would be a good thing I guess:) Think positive!

Well, we're switching daycares for Emma. We're going to be taking her to the Wesley Center here in town, which isn't that far from where Eric works,.....well, maybe it's about the same distance, but it will still be better. We're only going to be charged for the time she is there. So like when she is sick or we are sick and aren't bringing her in, we just call in and we don't have to pay! Plus, they give us a 10 cent discount if we prepay! The Wesley Center is in the Methodist Church and they use it so they don't have to pay rent, and they pay their employees pretty well. They aren't grant funded at all, they just barely make their payments, but they get along just fine apparently. I have very good vibes about this place. I felt all warm and fuzzy when I left:)

Emma still has a cold (you can hear her coughing and all the crap in her lungs come up. She's working on getting it out, but she's in good spirits! I can't believe she is 6 MONTHS OLD!!!! It just seems like yesterday we were waiting for her arrival! We'll be getting her pictures done at home I think..it will be cooler to have them done with our new additionS..... :-) ......you'll see..........

Anyway, I will get those out to you hopefully as soon as I get them done. We'll have them done at the 1 hour thing at Walmart and get them done.

Christmas shopping is going well...almost done though...I have so much stuff to buy this year it's rediculous! Eric and I decided to not get each other a lot of stuff, and frankly won't get Emma a whole lot of stuff either so we can try to catch up on some of the bills we had when I wasn't getting a paycheck and to pay for this huge hospital bill for the work done on Emma's UTI and her cold! UGHHH! Some days I wish I were a kid again ....lol .....it'll all work itself out...God has been very good to our family.

Well, I am going to get some things done and I hope everyone is doing well!

Love ya!

Less than 3 weeks 'til Christmas!

Hey guys...what's going on? That was pretty funny, Aaron...haven't seen that one before. Anyhow, looks like my trip to New York for work is off (for right now anyhow). Apparently some of the other people in the training class from other hospitals were pissy because it was too close to christmas. A bunch of them cancelled their trip to the class & signed up for the next class. So...they cancelled the Dec 18th class & it looks like I won't be going until Jan 28th. It kinda bites because it would be fun going to NY at christmas & the weather could be pretty crappy at the end of Jan. Oh well...I'll have more shopping money once christmas time is over anyhow :)

So...what's everybody else up to??? I am officially on my 3 day weekend...thank G*d!

Liz

Thought this was funny...

I, the Penis, hereby request a raise in salary for the following reasons:
I do physical labor.
I work at great depths.
I plunge headfirst into everything I do.
I do not get weekends or holidays off.
I work in a damp environment.
I work in a dark workplace that has poor ventilation.
I work in high temperatures.
My work exposes me to contagious diseases.
Sincerely,
The Penis

********************************************************
Dear Penis,
After assessing your request and considering the arguments you have raised,
the administration rejects your request for the following reasons:
You do not work eight hours straight.
You do not always follow the orders of the management team.
You do not stay in your designated area and are often seen visiting
other locations.
You do not take initiative. You need to be pressured and stimulated in
order to start working.
You leave the workplace rather messy at the end of your shift.
You don't always observe necessary safety regulations, such as wearing
the correct protective clothing.
You will retire well before you are 65.
You are unable to work double shifts.
You sometimes leave your designated work area before you have completed the assigned task.
And if that were not enough, you are constantly seen entering and
exiting the workplace carrying two suspicious looking bags.
Sincerely,
The Management

Yeah I guess everyone did send their stuff

I just wasn't digging through all of the posts to find them :) Anyway, I got some ideas! Hopefully I can get everything done on time.....don't count on it, but I'll try!